Feist Quotes

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.

I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.

When you're in the music business, every day is the same. If you work 9 to 5, you can't wait for the weekend, but in the music business, you don't know one day from the next. It's always the weekend.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.